Lisa Levy is a writer, essayist and critic. Her work has appeared in many publications, including The New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, The Millions, The Rumpus, Times Literary Supplement, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, and Literary Hub, where she is a contributing editor. She is also a columnist and contributing editor at Crime Reads. She is pursuing an MFA in nonfiction writing at Goucher College and working on an essay collection. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Written by Lisa Levy

Black and white photo of a woman in a dark dress lying on a leather couch, looking upward with one hand on her face.

My failed analysis gave me confidence and taught me when to quit

What does successful psychoanalysis look like? I’d read all around Freud and I didn’t know, but then neither did my analyst

by Lisa Levy